Professor in Interventional Cardiology, Chairman of PCR
University of Galway, CURAM
Galway, Galway, Ireland
Dr William Wijns graduated in 1976 from the University of Louvain in Belgium and joined the Thorax Center in Rotterdam from 1978 till 1982, engaging in the emerging fileds of nuclear cardiology, thrombolysis, coronary dilatation and later interventional cardiology.
After 2 years as a Visiting Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences at UCLA, Dr Wijns returned to the University of Louvain in 1985. His research focused on the regulation of coronary blood flow and cardiac metabolism in ischemic heart disease.
In 1994, Dr Wijns became co-Director of the Cardiovascular Center Aalst. He has relocated to the National University of Ireland Galway end of 2016 as a Research Professor in Interventional Cardiology (The Lambe Institute for Translational Medicine and CURAM).
Education responsabilities and meeting organisation.
Dr Wijns is Chairman of PCR.
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